Brunelleschi's Dome - Video: Daring Design

Brunelleschi's Dome - Video: Daring Design

Archives and History: Real Chancilleria de Valladolid

The Real Chancillería was a Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Castile. If you click here, you can understand the importance of its documents and the importance of this Court.

Inquisition and sailors

If you click here, you can find a curious story on the Inquisition

Enjoy the summer

I wish you all a good summer, and good luck in 3. ESO.

North European Discoveries (2. B).

The Inquisition

1492 (Columbus sighting land)

                                                Here you have the scene of the disem a famous movie called "1492: Conquest of Paradise". This scene is inspired by an entry from Christopher Columbus' journal that you can find on that link

An important portulan chart: The Juan de la Cosa map

This important map (that you can see on page 70 on your book) is now on display at the "Naval Museum" in Madrid, it is drawn on ox-skin and shows Europe, Africa and parts of Asia and America. Here you can find more information about its history: In English and in Spanish

Vasco Da Gama | Mocomi Kids

This is a video with subtitles about the journey of Vasco da Gama to India in 1498. Listen to it carefully and write on your notebook the basic facts of his journey and life.

Then look on page 71 to the map that shows his route and identify to which countries belong now: The Cape Bojador, Cape of Good Hope, Calicut , Ceylon, Moluccas. (You have to use the world map on page 145).

Marco Polo's travels

If you click on the following link to the Europeana Blog's entry about Marco Polo you will be able to find some information about Marco Polo. What else do you know about him? (Europeana is an organization that links many resources from museums, libraries, archives all around Europe. There you can find many images and information)

Homework during my absence

During my absence, you have to study unit 6 by yourselves, according to the notes you have to buy at the school.
You must do the following exercises according to the following timeline (in case there is any contradiction with the timeline that there is on my box at the teachers' room, the paper from teachers' room have priority):
Day 1: You will combine study page 57 and the notes until "Independenca of Castile" (1.1.1). And you have to do the following homework: exercise 1 and 2 on that page 57..
Day 2: You have to study in your notes 1.1.1. (Independence of Castile), and the whole 1.2 "The Pyrenean region". Homework: page 58, and "Activity sheet 24" (page 99) of your photocopies. Activity on the Cid. page 60
Day 3: You have to study "2. The Art (8th-10th centuries)", completing it with the part of mudejar art on page 59. Homework: "Activity sheet 22. Exercises 1 and 2", and exercises on page 59, and also complete the photocopy of "The asturian kingdom".
Day 4:  Bring your dictionary with you and translate the text about "El convento de Santa Clara-Museo de Pedro I". You have architectonical vocabulary on the photocopy I gave you in unit 4.
Day 5:Study on your notes Point 3 until the kingdom of Portugal, and do exercises on page 60, and activity sheet 22 (exercise 3).
 Day 6: Study on your notes the rest of point 3, and do the exercises on activity sheet 23
Day 7: Study on your book about the "Three cultures" on your book and do exercise about the Way of Saint James.
Day 8: You have to do a timeline combining what you learned in unit 5 and unit 6, on one side there must be facts about unit 5, and on the other about unit 6.
Day 9: Start unit 7.
PD: In case you have given me your notebook, do these exercises on sheets and I will give you your notebooks as soon as I come back.

Romanesque Mudejar

One of the specifically spanish styles was the mudejar, built by the muslims who lived in the christian kingdoms. Here you have a short documentary from "Las claves del románico" series that explains about romanesque-mudejar.

"El rómanico mudejar"

Islamic art

Here you have a few links about islamic art in Spain.
The first one is an illustrated book edited by the Metropolitan Museum of Arts of New York with lots of information and pictures (You have a copy of them in your classroom computers)
The second one is the  museum with no frontiers, and more precisely, the webpages dedicated to islamic art.

The Visigoths and their end

You can see the legend of "La Cava" from 21.20.
This legend was a legendary explanation of the muslim invasion of Spain, due to a crime (rape) committed by the last visigothic King on the daughter of the count Don Julián, the governor of Ceuta, who as a revenge helped the arabs to pass Gibraltar Straits.

HOW TO COMMENT A WORK OF ART

1. IDENTIFY WHICH TYPE OF ART IT IS:
Example.: This is a picture that shows a building (eg.: A church, a palace), a painting (on a wall, on a panel [sobre tabla], on canvas [sobre lienzo]), or a sculpture.
2. DESCRIBE WHAT YOU SEE, PAYING ATTENTION TO ANY FIGURES FEATURED. Eg:
We see a scene depicting a Christ in Glory. the figure doesn't show any movement and his limbs are disproportionate in relation to the rest of the body. They fit into the available space.
3. Finish by stating the style it has been done in.
4. (IN THE FOLLOWING UNITS. I 'LL GIVE YOU A LIST OF WORKS OF ART AND YOU HAVE TO LOOK FOR THE PICTURES ON THE NET, OR IN BOOKS, POSTCARDS, ETC. BUT I GIVE YOU IMAGES OF THE BUILDINGS).*
EXAMPLE 1. The sculpture up on the right on page 41.
 We see a picture of a statue representing the Virgin and a Child, it is a wooden carving coloured with bright colours. The bodies of the virgin and the child are disproportionate (example:long hands and a big head in both cases). Also their faces did not show any expression of feelings, and their bodies did not show any movement. To sum up, we can say it is a sculpture of the romanesque period.
EXAMPLE 2. Painting B on page 47:
Here we have a painting on a wooden panel (oil on a wooden panel). It represents the descent from the Cross (when they took the body of Christ from the cross to bury it). The scene is more naturalist (the bodies are proportionated, the faces expresses feelings, also the clothes fell naturally). And, in contrast with a romanesque painting, we see the symmetry is broken by two figures: Christ and the Virgin. According to the characteristics we have listed, we are sure it is a gothic painting.

Useful link

Here it is an useful link for your art units. This is a hungarian webpage with a complete database of every artist organized per periods with ALL works. It includes: painting, sculpture, miniatures, architecture, etc.

Web Gallery of Art

THE CRUSADES (BY LUCIE)

Here I upload the powerpoint lucie did about the crusades, I hope it will be useful to you. lucie's powerpoint

Students' Powerpoints. 2. B

Here I upload the two power point presentations that are the "recovery exam" of two of our students. I hope they will be useful on your trip: MaurerTobalina

Students' PowerPoints 2. A

Here I upload the powerpoint, that our student, Raúl has done about a monument you probably visit on your trip.

Gothic style

An introduction to Gothic art from alnugar

SEVERAL MUSEUMS OF ART (ROMANESQUE AND GOTHIC)

Interesting webs of museums: Metropolitan Museum of New York (its permanent collection contains several pieces of Iberian art sold during the 19th and 20th century)metropolitan museum. There is an e-book about this collection: "The art of medieval Spain 500-1200"
 Also, the Prado Museum collection owns several examples of paintings from the romanesque and gothic styles: "Romanesque to Renaissance. Prado Museum."
The "Museu Nacional d'Art de Cataluña" owns an interesting collection of works from the Romanesque and Gothic (among others):Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
And, finally, the National Spanish Sculpture Museum of Valladolid has an interesting collection of carvings from the 13th to the 18th century Museo Nacional de Escultura Policromada de Valladolid

Romanesque and Gothic

This is a power point presentation on Romanesque and Gothic art.

Romanesque and gothic from eagarciadeparedes

This is a presentation on the spanish romanesque:

Romanesque art in Spain from Angela Ruiz Montero

And, finally, this is a presentation about the spanish gothic art:

Gothic in Spain from Angela Ruiz Montero

Physics of Stone Arches

To understand better WHY romanesque buildings have thick walls (with small windows) and used buttresses and meanwhile, WHY gothic buildings have greater windows and can reach greater heights, I share this link. This link is taken from the website "NOVA. Building the Cathedrals", and allow you to understand some aspects of the romanesque and gothic styles in architecture.
"NOVA. BUILDING CATHEDRALS. THE PHYSICS OF STONE ARCHES".

European capitals (All)

Here it is the last entry on the european capitals before the exam on Friday.
GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!

European capitals (all) on PhotoPeach

Interactive map of spanish romanesque

This is a useful resource I have found on the web: it is an interactive map of spanish romanesque from the web www.arquivoltas.com .
If you click on a province, it shows the romanesque art on this province.

http://www.arquivoltas.com/Arquivoltas.htm